I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

The past is only the future with the lights on

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.

Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

A real punk is punk on the inside.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted.

People only talk about me and sweaters because I don't give them anything else to talk about.

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them. Which I totally am.

Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.